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The Warsaw Pact was in a state of open warfare with Israel for decades.

Posted by The Pete Quiñones Show, Checked

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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 10, 2026
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Sources support that the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact allies, including East Germany, were in a prolonged hostile state with Israel from the mid-1960s to 1989, but describe it as an undeclared state of war, not open warfare.

What we found

Contradicts. Herf's characterization of the conflict as 'undeclared' contradicts the claim's 'open warfare'; the sources describe proxy and material support rather than overt combat between the pact and Israel.[2]

Supports. Jeffrey Herf's study states that from the mid-1960s until 1989, the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies, including the GDR, were engaged in an undeclared state of war with Israel.[2]

Supports. Carnegie's analysis says Moscow and its Warsaw Pact allies backed the Arab side in the wars against Israel in 1956, 1967, and 1973, with strategic, financial, and military support.[3]

Context. The Warsaw Pact's own treaty organization never fought Israel directly; the pact's direct-conflict finding in the Wikipedia and AP sources concerns NATO, not Israel.[1][4]

Context. Both Herf and Carnegie are unrated or low-credibility sources, so the support for a decades-long hostile state is not from the highest-tier record.[2][3]

Sources

4 sources: 1 fact-checker, 3 not rated

  1. 1A look at NATO and what the alliance does, past and presentapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
  2. 2“At War with Israel” East Germany's Key Role in Soviet ...kyleorton.co.uk · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports, context
  3. 3Israel-Russia Relations | Carnegie Endowment for International Peacecarnegieendowment.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
  4. 4Warsaw Pact - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context

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